Newman, M. G., & Stone, A. A. (1996). Does humor moderate the effects of experimentally-induced stress?. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 18(2), 101-109.
This study attempted to determine whether humor production moderates mood and physiological responses to stress of subjects high and low in trait humor. Forty subjects who were high and 40 subjects who were low in trait humor were selected. Half of each group was randomly assigned to one of two conditions. In one condition they generated a humorous monologue and in the other condition they ...